Leading the way with seven TDC71 Certificate wins, all in Communication Design, is Pentagram, New York. This includes five in Print or Digital — Brand Identity System, one each for Barco de Papel, Helions, Williamstown, Windham Campbell and The Roald Dahl Story Company. The firm also has two wins in Print or Digital — Logotype / Monogram — Single, one for Barco de Papel and the other for Helions, says the Type Directors Club.  

The Type Directors Club says The New York Times Magazine, New York has six winning entries, all in Communication Design, Publication / Editorial — Editorial / Catalog / Magazine — Series, for 'The Weirdest, Wildest Performances of the Year,' 'The Olympics Issue,' 'The Lives They Lived,' 'Forget the Academy. Our Nominees Are …,' 'The Retirement Issue' and 'The Culture Issue'.

The competition says that in addition, The New York Times Kids has three TDC71 Certificate wins, all in Communication Design, Publication/Editorial — Book / Magazine Cover — Series, for '2024 Covers,' 'The Elections Issue' and 'The Games Issue.' The New York Times, working with Daisy Chain Studio London, has two wins in Communication Design for 'State of The Times,' one each in Motion — Credits or Titles, and in Print or Digital — Brand Identity System.

With five TDC71 wins is Typotheque The Hague, all in Type Design. They include one each for 'Pristine' in Single Axis Type Family, 'Zed Icons' in Emoji / Symbol Typeface, 'November Mongolian' in Multiple Axis Type Family and 'November Tibetan' in Multiple Axis Type Family. They also won a certificate working with Hagilda Tel Aviv for 'Rapida Hebrew + Arabic' in Single Axis Type Family, says the competition. 

TDC71 says the End Design, Guangzhou has four TDC71 Certificate wins, all in Communication Design for the client Shenzhen Graphic Design Association. They include two for Motion & Graphic Typography Design Exhibition — one each in Motion — Animated Posters — Single and Print or Digital — Brand Identity System and two for China TDC 2024, one each in Motion — Animated Posters — Single and Print or Digital — Brand Identity System.

With three TDC71 Certificate wins each are Baillat Studio, Montreal, Kevin Cantrell Studio, Mantua, mdbuero, Zurich, Untitled Macao, Macao and The New York Times for Kids, New York, says the Type Directors Club. 

According to the Type Directors Club, Jury Presidents for this year's TDC71 competition were three members of the TDC Advisory Board:

  • Min Lew, Managing Partner, ECD, Base Design in New York, for Communication Design 
  • David Jon Walker, Principal, Rhealistic, New Haven, Professor of Art in Graphic Design, Yale University, for Lettering, and
  • Sahar Afshar, Type Designer, Founding Partner, Dogray Type Foundry in London for Type Design.

TDC71 Best of Discipline and Judges' Choice recipients will be announced on Tuesday, 13 May, during The One Club for Creativity's annual Creative Week in New York. That's also the date for a special TDC71 Exhibition of winning work, from 19:00 to 21:00 at Location05, 450 West 31st St, 7th floor, says the competition. 

All TDC71 winners receive a Certificate of Typographic Excellence and digital seal certifying their work is among the world's best of the year. Winning work will also be featured in the highly respected TDC Annual, The World’s Best Typography® and showcased in eight exhibitions that travel to museums, schools and design organisations around the world, says TDC71.

Across its three juries, TDC71 says it had native experts for writing systems spanning Arabic, Cyrillic, Indic, CJK, Thai and select African scripts. The addition of these and other judges in recent years is a reflection of TDC's commitment to having a greater number of the most appropriate experts judging designs for which they have a deep knowledge.

The Type Directors Club concludes that branding for this year's competition was created by Paprika, based in Montréal, with fonts generously donated by Klim Type Foundry, in Wellington, New Zealand.

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